classrooms and the central administration. A group of one-storey buildings
providing some 28 temporary classrooms has been constructed on a site
within walking distance from the main campus, to meet the immediate needs
arising from the Polytechnic's increased teaching commitments and activities.
7. A lease for a minimum period of three years has been taken on a
large office block in the former Taiko Dockyard at Quarry Bay on Hong Kong
Island. This building has been converted into lecture rooms, studios,
workshops, staff and student facilities, together with an extension of the
library and is now known as the Quarry Bay Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
8.
A three phase building plan has been approved by the Board of
Governors and submitted through the UPGC to Government. Proposals
incorporated in the plan include the extension of the present campus at Hung
Hom into an adjoining site, making a single new campus covering an area of
approximately 25 acres. The first phase, which is scheduled to be completed
by the end of 1975, will include construction of a new library and Learning
Resources Centre and a multi-storey, multi-purpose building. Phase II is
scheduled to be completed by the end of 1977 and phase III by the end of
1978.
9.
Laboratory and workshop facilities are housed both on the main
campus at Hung Hom and in the Quarry Bay Centre. Considerable development and planning have been undertaken to modify laboratories and workshops taken
over from the technical college and install new ones, to replace obsolete with
new machinery and to acquire additional equipment.
10. A new library and Learning Resources Centre has been planned to be
housed in a new seven-storey air-conditioned building which will be built
as part of the first phase of the Polytechnics building development plan.
11.
The Polytechnic offers a wide range of courses of study at the
professional, technologist and technic levels which prepare students for
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